Some communities in WA and ID have a community fiber ring or something setup. But their speeds are capped to be like 10KB/s I think... Not too sure about it myself...


In short, you won't find one. Phone lines are good 'ol copper. Fiber is...you guessed it...glass or plastic or something optical...


Also, clarification about cable. That is fiber to the curb IIRC. Only the cable box gets fiber. Everyone else gets copper. It is cheaper this way, and everyone is pretty happy.


One more thing to clear up. kbps is different from KB/s. Your downloads are 1 - 3 KB/s, not 1-3kbps. If it was 1-3kbps, I'm sure the modem would drop the connection. Your modem is connecting between 36kbps to 52kbps. 224kbps would download a 1MB file in about 36 seconds, not really considering the overhead in the protocols involved.